By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A group of mayors recently pressed US immigration officials on Covid-19-related travel restrictions that remain in effect and threaten to further hurt their local economies. The question on their minds: Why has cross-border travel, which has been suspended for more than a year, not been allowed to resume? Officials didn’t have
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday revived the GOP’s thwarted efforts to pass new voting laws in America’s biggest red state after Democrats temporarily derailed a restrictive bill with a late-night walkout in the state Capitol in May. As expected, Abbott made new election laws one of nearly a dozen items —
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CNN’s Rachel Crane looks at the race between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to be the first in space.
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OZONA, Texas — An El Paso woman was killed over the holiday weekend when the SUV she was riding in crashed along Interstate 10 in west central Texas, according to state troopers. The crash happened near the unincorporated community of Ozona, which is about 350 miles east of El Paso. According to the Texas Department
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HOUSTON, Texas — While it’s not 100% sure actor Matthew McConaughey will be running for Texas governor, he seems to already be a fan favorite against current Gov. Greg Abbott, ABC affiliate KTRK reported Tuesday. A new poll from Quinnipiac University shows the actor and Texas native gaining a lot of attention. According to the poll, 41%
Continue Reading Matthew McConaughey posted a message to America in celebration of Independence Day, likening issues the country is facing “as basically going through puberty.”
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Police in Forth Worth reported eight people have been wounded in a shooting near a car wash in which it appears multiple guns were used. Police said in a statement that the eight gunshot victims were taken to hospitals and were in stable condition. Police said no suspects are in custody.
Continue Reading Jobless residents of Maryland and Texas have filed lawsuits in state courts seeking to force their governors to reinstate pandemic unemployment benefits. They join an effort begun by out-of-work Indiana residents, who have yet to see their payments restart despite a court ruling last week ordering the state to continue the benefits. A judge in
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas district attorney announced that a grand jury has indicted Daniel Perry on charges including murder in the death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. Perry also was indicted on one count of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count of deadly conduct stemming from the July 25,
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UPDATE: A statewide Texas Amber Alert was re-issued Friday for a 7-month-old boy who was taken from his father’s home by his estranged mother on Thursday – and now authorities say a man was also involved in the abduction of Miguel David Lee Ramirez. Officials said 25-year-old Marcus Nast entered the home without consent and
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ADDISON, Texas – The Texas parent company of Taco Cabana has announced that it will sell the brand to a major restaurant operator out of California, ABC affiliate KSAT reported. Addison-based Fiesta Restaurant Group, Inc. sold the chain to YTC Enterprises, LLC, an affiliate of Yadav Enterprises, Inc., for $85 million in cash. The transaction will
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — The NFL announced Friday that the Dallas Cowboys will be featured in HBO’s “Hard Knocks” this season. In a tweet, the league said the new season debuts Aug. 10. We’re coming for you, @DallasCowboys! 🤠#HardKnocks kicks off August 10th on @HBOMax pic.twitter.com/1NFJ9DhCSh— NFL Films (@NFLFilms) July 2, 2021 “Hard Knocks” is a
Continue Reading TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — British billionaire Richard Branson plans to beat fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos to space. Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, made a surprise announcement Thursday that he will attempt to fly in Virgin’s rocket-powered plan on July 11 from southern New Mexico — nine days before Bezos’s planned July 20th launch
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. officials will close four emergency facilities set up to house record numbers of migrant children crossing the Mexican border alone but cautioned that minors were still arriving. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will shut two facilities in Texas and two at convention centers in California by early August, Aurora Miranda-Maese, juvenile coordinator
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VAN HORN, Texas — Wally Funk, a pioneering female pilot who dreamed of being an astronaut in the 1960s, will fly to space later this month with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the first crewed flight for his space-faring firm Blue Origin, which will launch from Van Horn in Culberson County. The flight will fulfill
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents had a busy Tuesday in the Borderland as they found dozens of migrants in an El Paso stash house and arrested several others in Sierra Blanca following an armed home break-in, officials said Wednesday. The stash house discovery of 35 migrants occurred in central El Paso. Agents
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(Editor’s note: In the video players above, first is Trump and Abbott’s appearance together at the border, in the second player is their complete remarks at a border security briefing beforehand.) PHARR, Texas — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday joined Texas’ top state leaders at the U.S.-Mexico border to slam the Biden administration’s immigration
Continue Reading RICHARDSON, Texas — Ampex Brands — a Texas franchisee that owns more than 400 Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and 7-Eleven locations — is buying Au Bon Pain. Panera, which purchased Au Bon Pain in 2017, will sell all 171 of Au Bon Pain’s locations and will allow Ampex to franchise 131 additional
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico. Noem joined a growing list of Republican governors promising to send law enforcement officers to Texas as the GOP
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DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — After three days of repeated power outages at his aunt’s Dallas home back during February’s arctic storm, Steven Brown noticed something was very wrong with his legs. “My feet had swelled up on me,” he recalled. “I couldn’t walk normal. My ankles locked up to the point where I couldn’t bend
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EL PASO, Texas — The husband of the 39-year-old Austin woman who died hiking in the Franklin Mountains amidst Monday’s heavy rains said she was loved by her son, her husband and her students. “She’s Christy,” said Gabriel Mata, the husband of Christina Garcia-Mata. “She’s beautiful.” Shortly after 4 p.m. on Monday, search and rescue
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WASHINGTON, DC — More than 1 million migrants have been arrested after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since last October, according to two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, surpassing the 2019 border crisis tally with three months still left in the fiscal year. The Biden administration has been bracing for a high number of
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows that his base is all for it. Texas Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of Abbott’s border wall effort: 89% support it and only 8% are opposed, according to
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REYNOSA, Mexico — Eight more suspects have been arrested for alleged involvement in gun attacks earlier this month that killed 19 people in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa, which is across from McAllen, Texas, officials said Sunday. The arrests brought to 13 the number of people detained over the June 19 attacks that left four
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A Texas statewide Amber Alert has been issued for 13-year-old Antonette Rodriguez after she left her home near Brownsville and was reported to be in the company of an older man. She was last seen at a San Antonio hotel and anyone with information was urged by authorities to call 911 immediately.
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New video from inside a Biden-Harris campaign bus shows the 2020 incident where Trump supporters surrounded the bus, and allegedly collided with one staffer’s car.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to a request from GOP governors to help fight crime at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Thursday. A statement from the Iowa Department of Public Safety did not say when the deployment of the
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AUSTIN, Texas — Over the span of about a week, Texas received $459,000 in private donations for the state’s planned wall at the southern border, the governor’s office said. This comes after Gov. Greg Abbott said he would reallocate $250 million in state funds as a “down payment” for the project — while crowdfunding some of the remaining
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Caught off-guard by intense summer heat and rugged terrain in Culberson and Hudspeth counties, officials said they found a dead teenage boy but were able to rescue numerous other migrants in need of medical attention over the past 48 hours. Word of the west Texas encounters came from the Texas Rescue
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TORNILLO, Texas — Interstate 10 near Tornillo was shut down in both directions by authorities on Thursday morning after two separate incidents involving tractor-trailer rigs. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, one of the incidents involved a truck that caught fire on the highway while the
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